of saturday afternoons.. you re a champion of facial hair. just for men mustache and beard. monday morning the mix, time to kick things off with the great story. this dog used by the military to sniff out ieds, explosive devices. going into harm s way, where a lot of the military relies on this kind of canine help. well this dog, 8-year-old kay, has a tumor on his heart. and so now, his owner also serving in the military, was trying to get the procedure done for $6,000. obviously, a costly, costly procedure. what did brandon donahue do? started an online petition and campaign. within 20 days, 186 people went on line, pledged money. kay will have the operation. how wonderful. animals are selfless. they want a little attention. they give back so much. and especially whether you re in a war zone, to grow so attached. incredible. happy to hear that story.
part of the danger we had power out in some parts of the city, not completely out in other parts of the city. people need to be careful ability getting into their homes or the city with the power still on, we have natural gas leaks, our water utility company has breaks in the lines so there s a danger if we do start getting some fires, that we won t have the fire equipment and the water resources to put those fires out. those things are all critical and especially i think it s important that the people if you don t have to be out on the street, stay home. if you re out looking for a family member something like that, emergency responder, been called into work central type of a business, certainly you re going to be out. we don t want to lose people with fatalities because our first responders can t get to them because of plugged up traffic. do you have enough help? do you need more help from communities and jurisdictions near sfb. we ve had an overwhelming response by roughly 40 ag
that has been sheered off. everyone has been evacuated from this building we re told. there is significant dangers. 89 confirmed dead, that number expected to rise. officials warning there are dangers of people going back to their homes right now. they re warning people, you may not want to try that yet. i m joined by the two top officials of the city of joplin. city manager mark roar is here and the mayor, mike wool ston with us. thank you for joining us. mr. roar, you told me a story i want you to relate to our viewers if you can about you and the fire chief coming across a church in the minutes after this tornado hit. what happened and what did you find there? i was at home dressed as i am now and he called and said you need to get out here. i met him, had to park the car and walk a few blocks to where he was at. we decided to get in his vehicle and do an assessment and we were going down the road an we got hailed by someone that needed help at a church. and he and i went over and
[ inaudible ]. yes. i anticipate we still do have some people trapped in structures. [ inaudible ] many of your emergency responders, did they themselves have their homes damaged? yes, several of our emergency responders homes were destroyed. we also had two fire stations that have been destroyed as well as some fire apparatus here in the city. so not only on top the other damage, we re trying to work through our own damage as well. what hospital [ inaudible ]? what was the action taken by the ambulance people? i can t i wasn t out at the hospital personally. i had one of my battalion chiefs out there handling that. i do know after the tornado hit and cleared and we got out here to help, we made a very hasty evacuation of a nine-story
stay out of the area so that rescue crews can reach all of the victims. we re hearing this repeated again and again, people want to return, they want to see what s left, in some cases like we re dealing with in missouri, may be trying to look for survivors but it s dangerous in the wake of severe weather like this to go back too soon. in the case of what s going on in joplin they re trying to clear the roads, get the heavy equipment in there so the search and rescue crews can get around a little more. they re just climbing hand over fist to get to the areas they think that s dangerous too. nails, glass, there s toxic fluids, and there s natural gas as well. so there s a lot of obstacles these guys have to go through and it s going to be several days of search and rescue. they know where some of the people are trapped so they re going one by one down their list, one of the officials said, down trying to clear the area so they can get the people out. right now, even as we spe